Debra Messing celebrated her Haute Living New York cover with Bertaud Belieu Rosé at Soho hotspot, MAMO in New York City Tuesday night. The cover comes on the heels of her wrapping filming on the ‘Dirty Dancing’ TV remake with Abigail Breslin, the upcoming fall revival of ‘Will and Grace’ after an eleven-year hiatus, and a new role executive producing passion projects.
As guests made their way upstairs for the intimate cocktail party, they were greeted with Bertaud Belieu rosé before feasting on a culinary showcase of MAMO’s finest, from gazpacho Italiano and rum and lemon-marinated salmon to its signature truffle focaccia. Notable VIPs in attendance included Jean Shafiroff, Lucia Hwong Gordon, Larry Milstein, Ambassador Paolo Zampolli, Mazen Dayem of JetSmarter, Haute Living Publisher, Seth Semilof and Haute Living New York Editor in Chief, Catherine Sabino.
As a native New Yorker, Messing reveals about her magazine cover, “It’s been a huge honor. It’s a beautiful magazine- chic and sophisticated, it was a pleasure to do it and I’m really proud of the whole spread.” In the issue, she opens up about media as not only a barometer of the particularly charged socio-political climate, but as a mechanism of navigating it using comic relief. Speaking to her inherent activist, she goes on to use her craft as a stage, a precursor to dialogue on pressing cultural issues. “Everything happening now will be fodder for the comedy.”